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Gotta love gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
... to a 20-year low of US$254 an ounce three years later. Now investors - including central banks - couldn't seem to have enough. So far this year, gold prices have appreciated by more than 18 per cent, trumping the paltry three per cent gain in the S&P ...

Bad hair day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
... proportion of household which saved ''a lot'' declined from 11.5 per cent in June to 8.7 per cent in September..." Not bad enough? AAP quoted Research Fellow at the Melbourne Institute, Edda Claus warning that, "two worrying developments were appearing". ...

Global equities hurt NZ Super

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
... posted a 1.4 per cent decline after fees but before taxes in the month to 31 August, with a rally in global fixed income not enough to offset declines in global equity markets, to which the fund remains heavily exposed. The fund's assets stood at NZ$16.2 ...

Much ado over more of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
... recoveries." And that, "We don't see a risk of a double-dip recession. That said, we don't see either a recovery that is strong enough to put a significant dent in unemployment." Amen!

ETF portfolio vs Future Fund portfolio shows gap

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
... debt, it is relatively conservative compared to one he would construct for a retail investor. "I think it's not aggressive enough in a sense that its emerging market is only 3 per cent of its global equity portfolio while its portfolio is dominated with ...

Watching the A$ watch the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
... economy from growing too fast. If Bloomberg is correct and the A dollar depreciates in the near term, there must be a good enough reason for it. This should not be feared but welcomed.

Happy days

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
... interview, IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn warned that, "We're not safe yet." Because "The recovery is not enough, you need to have a recovery with jobs." The IMF didn't come alone, it phoned a friend. Business services company BDO warned ...

Mistaken identity on term deposits

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
... and their portfolio, if a term deposit is right for a client than I think that advisers are well trained and understand enough to know that," Berry stated. Still, PIMCO said the research suggests education is an issue, with 59 per cent of survey respondents ...

Aussies fear super balances

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2010
... The second annual Suncorp Life Attitudes to Superannuation in Australia Survey assessed consumers' concerns about having enough money to retire on and related issues, and showed around one in three Australians appear to be too scared to look at their ...

ACCC opposes NAB/AXA merger

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
... said the proposed undertaking by the parties - which includes selling the North platform to IOOF Holdings - do not provide enough certainty to appease the commission's competition concerns. The commission also said it would not oppose AMP's competing ...